Future Thinkers
6min2020 AUG 28
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Generational differences always pose a challenge for companies. How do you integrate the norms and expectations of the new generation with those of the old? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt points out that Gen Z—the cohort born after 1995—differs sharply from the Millennial generation before it and offers some advice for understanding and working with a generation in some ways more sheltered and less independent than any before it.Generation Z: Also known as iGeneration, the demographic cohort born after the Millennials, starting in 1995Studies show that Gen Z has spent less time going out with friends, driving, drinking, dating, and working for money. Instead, Gen Z has spent a lot of time at home interacting with their devices. They’re the first generation to use social media from a young age.Gen Z is very different from the Millennials.Gen Z has been more overprotected than previous generations. They were:subjected to more anti-bullying content at schoolplaced under greater ...